International Journal of Building Pathology and Adaptation: Volume 42 Issue 1

Sustainable management of heritage buildings in long-term perspective (SyMBoL): current knowledge and further research needs

Chiara Bertolin, Filippo Berto

This article introduces the Special Issue on Sustainable Management of Heritage Buildings in long-term perspective.

Natural climate reconstruction in the Norwegian stave churches through time series processing with variational autoencoders

Noemi Manara, Lorenzo Rosset, Francesco Zambelli, Andrea Zanola, America Califano

In the field of heritage science, especially applied to buildings and artefacts made by organic hygroscopic materials, analyzing the microclimate has always been of extreme…

Machine learning and engineering feature approaches to detect events perturbing the indoor microclimate in Ringebu and Heddal stave churches (Norway)

Pietro Miglioranza, Andrea Scanu, Giuseppe Simionato, Nicholas Sinigaglia, America Califano

Climate-induced damage is a pressing problem for the preservation of cultural properties. Their physical deterioration is often the cumulative effect of different environmental…

Natural hazards affecting cultural heritage: assessment of flood and landslide risk for the 28 existing Norwegian stave churches

Chiara Bertolin, Elena Sesana

The overall objective of this study is envisaged to provide decision makers with actionable insights and access to multi-risk maps for the most in-danger stave churches (SCs…

Remote sensing to assess the risk for cultural heritage: forecasting potential collapses due to rainfall in historic fortifications

Mónica Moreno, Rocío Ortiz, Pilar Ortiz

Heavy rainfall is one of the main causes of the degradation of historic rammed Earth architecture. For this reason, ensuring the conservation thereof entails understanding the…

Integrated computational approaches for energy retrofit of historical buildings in extreme climate environments

Stefania Stellacci, Leonor Domingos, Ricardo Resende

The purpose of this research is to test the effectiveness of integrating Grasshopper 3D and measuring attractiveness by a categorical based evaluation technique (M-MACBETH) for…

An energy performance baseline scenario for 19thC listed dwellings in the UK

Michela Menconi, Noel Painting, Poorang Piroozfar

The inclusion of heritage dwellings in the UK decarbonization policies can contribute to cut operational carbon emissions from the building stock; this needs to be made a priority…

Adaptation re-use of traditional cafés in Erbil, Iraq

Rand H.M. Agha, Amna Nassir Hussein

This paper aims to shed light on adaptive reuse in traditional architecture (TA) in Erbil, Iraq.

The determination of mode-I fracture toughness (by means of the Brazilian disc configuration) in the light of data provided by the 3D digital image correlation technique

Stavros K. Kourkoulis, Ermioni D. Pasiou, Christos F. Markides, Andronikos Loukidis, Ilias Stavrakas, Dimos Triantis

The determination of mode-I fracture toughness of brittle structural materials by means of the notched Brazilian disc configuration is studied. Advantage is taken of a recently…